Kingswell Headstone About 9 Metres North West of the Tower of the Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. Headstone.
Kingswell Headstone About 9 Metres North West of the Tower of the Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- spare-landing-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- Headstone
- OS grid reference
- SS 942 071
- Coordinates
- 50.85442, -3.50431
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kingswell headstone, located about 9 metres north-west of the tower of the Church of St Mary, is an early 19th-century stone headstone. It features a segmental shouldered head and commemorates John Kingswell, who died in 1800. The headstone includes a verse below the inscription that reads: "Affliction for a long time I bore / Physicians were in vain / Till God pleased death should me seize / To ease my of my pain."
Local climate
Kingswell Headstone About 9 Metres North West of the Tower of the Church of St Mary receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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